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The Japanese government has turned to social media to boost tourists visiting the country after spending $280,000 (Y21.5 million) to invite ten influential thought leaders from across the world to visit the country, according to a report from The Mainichi Daily News. The plan comes after the government opted against a...

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Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Frank Barbieri, a serial entrepreneur and occasional blogger. You can follow him @frankba. Taxes are for old businesses. That seems to be the sentiment coming from the oft-offended Silicon Valley sycophants. I’m not talking about the measured approach of Mayor Ed Lee and Ron...

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Google has followed up with a judge's order to disclose anyone it might have paid to influence coverage of its trial against Oracle, and the list includes a well-known Stanford professor who is often quoted without mentioning his relationship to Google. Google had initially told the court it hadn't...

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According to a report by The Guardian, Sky News has instituted new rules for its reporters when it comes to Tweeting news from their personal accounts. The report references an internal email sent to Sky News journalists about how to conduct themselves on the micro-messaging platform with a series of...

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Google is about to launch a new commenting system that will tie into the search giant’s Google+ platform, web services and web search. Tech-WD blogger Saud Al-Hawawi reported yesterday that several new Google features that have yet to be announced were discussed at the Google event G-Saudi Arabia, including the new...

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James Firth has an interesting post, talking about some of the more ridiculous consequences of current US law enforcement interpretation of copyright law. Looking at the case of Richard O'Dwyer, the computer science student that the US is getting closer to extraditing to the US to face criminal copyright infringement...

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When you’re considering buying a new laptop or trading in your phone for a newer model, it is likely that you’ll look at pricing and offers with e-retailers, but you’re also probably going to check out the views of your favourite and trusted tech blogger. If they slam the latest...

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Parisian architects propose an inflatable doughnut structure over the river to rival London's wobbly bridgeWhen London had a wobbly bridge, we did everything in our power to tame it.The mildly thrilling sensation of the Millennium Bridge's metallic deck undulating beneath our feet was apparently too much to bear - it...

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Spotify has gone from strength to strength since it launched in 2008, and last year its deep Facebook integration and US launch helped take the music-streaming service to the next level. From today, however, Spotify takes a pretty big step towards really establishing itself in the mainstream, as it rolls...

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Today's guest blogger needs no introduction. Joel Spolsky one of the best bloggers out there. He also runs one of our portfolio companies, Stack. And his approach to management is unorthodox at times but amazingly effective. I asked him to tell us a little about how he does it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

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Acclaimed Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez has repeatedly tried to travel internationally but local authorities refuse to let her leave--human rights organizations think it's because of the political views she writes about on her blog....

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It's an unedifying sight when big-name chefs gang up on a customer and amateur food blogger, but that's just what's been happeningThere was a spat last night on Twitter. Nothing new in that - spats on twitter are as ubiquitous as bones in herring. This one, however, stuck in my...

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Samsung’s marketing machine appears to have gone into overdrive with reports that advertising agencies working on its behalf sent a bus full of protesters to the Apple Store in Sydney, Australia to tell customers to ‘Wake Up’. We know that Samsung is readying the launch of its ‘Next Galaxy’ smartphone,...

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We're witnessing another sea change in Web publishing. From Pinterest at the beginning of this year to the launch this week of a new product from two Twitter founders, Medium, 2012 has been a year where the norms of publishing are being challenged. It wasn't that long ago that Tumblr...

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The 'YouTube of audio' claims to now reach 8% of the world's internet population as mobile audio takes offIf the future of the internet is mobile, things are looking very good for Soundcloud, the Berlin-based sound-sharing site. Known as the "YouTube of audio", mobile will soon be the dominant platform...

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Whenever newspaper executives get together to bemoan the fate of their industry, someone inevitably brings up the so-called “original sin” of the online news business — namely, a failure to charge for content when the web was new. One of the latest manifestations of this idea appears in an...

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A long time ago a friend of mine and I were discussing another female tech blogger. “You know what?” he said. “The truth is — please don’t kill me — the truth is that men just don’t care what women think about tech.” Hmmm… Whether or not you or I...

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A mobile phone is an inherently personal device. Given the hours that we spend using them each day, most of us have gone to the trouble to personalise our phone to some degree; not just in terms of apps, and layout, but often also design too. MyColorscreen is a website-cum-social-network...

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Ev Williams and Biz Stone launch two new sites - Medium and Branch - which they hope will launch an eveolutionary leap in online sharingThey inspired a boom in self-publishing with Blogger, then turned the world to 140 characters with Twitter. Now Ev Williams and Biz Stone have launched two...

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Tumblr is on the cusp of doing something quite incredible. Google searches mentioning the service are poised to surpass searches for ‘blog’ by the end of the year, showing that the New York-based company has truly established itself as the Web’s most popular blogging platform. Comparing the two terms, ‘blog’ is...

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As Google continues to roll out new social features across its portfolio of websites, today the company has announced that it has launched two new widgets for Blogger account owners, allowing them to place a +1 button and a Google+ badge directly on their website. The widgets have been added...

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James Harding tells Leveson inquiry he 'sorely regrets' paper did not reveal that reporter hacked police blogger's emailThe editor of the Times has apologised to a high court judge over the paper's failure to declare that a reporter had hacked into the email of an anonymous police blogger when it...

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A startup entrepreneur has become the first person in the UK to buy the new iPad in store, two of them in fact. Chris Leydon, of Chartbeat competitor GoSquared (realtime web site analytics), stood in line outside PC World on Tottenham Court Road which opened at midnight. Down the road...

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In an odd marketing move, Samsung hired a street team of marketers to protest outside an Australian Apple Store. The protesters pulled up next to the store in a black bus and poured out chanting "Wake up!" It's weird. There's also an Australian site called Wake Up, with a massive...

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Google’s integration with its own products has become slightly deeper again today with the introduction of Google+ sharing through the Blogger dashboard. It makes sense to streamline the process of sharing for bloggers who distribute their posts on the Google network. According to a post on the Blogger Buzz blog,...

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Mike Arrington, an investor in Path, just called out the company and Dave Morin after it was revealed that Path is storing address book data. He told Morin and his company that it should just delete all the stored address books on its servers on his personal blog, Uncrunched....

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Microsoft announced the RTM milestone of its Windows 8 development earlier this week, but as users await the final bits on August 15th, one blogger has managed to install and document a tutorial process for the new Metro Start Screen. In the final version shipping to PC makers, Microsoft...

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While Nokia has scheduled a joint press conference with Microsoft for September 5th, we're only expecting two Windows Phone devices right now. A new video from Nokia's official YouTube channel hints that the company could be preparing a big announcement on September 5th. The video, which appears to be...

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Path CEO Dave Morin Path, the mobile app for cataloging your daily activities and sharing them with a relatively small circle of contacts, came under serious fire on Tuesday when it was discovered that Path’s iPhone app imports all of its users’ address book data onto Path’s own servers without...

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There’s been much speculation about which company is behind the controversial ‘Wake Up’ campaign currently going on in Australia. We previously reported that Samsung might be culpable but RIM has now stepped up and acknowledged that the creation is its. The Canadian mobile maker issued a statement this morning, via its...